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21:29–21:48 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3121:31Frame at 21:3521:35Frame at 21:4121:41Frame at 21:4621:46

Play from 21:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 21 · shots 104–107. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, seen from back or side visible
  • man in lighter suit and hat, holding a cane or stick visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a stone-walled room. [frame:1]
  • One man stands on a raised platform or stairs, holding a cane. [frame:2]
  • The two men stand near a life preserver mounted on a stone wall. [frame:3]
  • One man walks away from the camera toward a dark archway. [frame:4]
Also said
“Say, we won't need this, will we? No.” 21:41 · “Ah!” 21:45
Seen
life preserver, cane or stick, stone walls and stairs, dark archway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and slightly ominous; themes: military enlistment, forgetting or moving on, discarding possessions; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shots, theatrical staging with props like life preserver and stairs

Two men in suits and hats are seen in a dimly lit stone-walled space with stairs and a life preserver; one man stands on a platform while the other walks away. A transcript line mentions joining the 4th Legion and forgetting something within days, and another line dismisses the need for an unspecified item.

“If we join the 4th Legion, how long will it take him to forget? No time at all. Just a matter of a few days.” 21:29 · “Well, that's from what I've spent all time. Now we don't have to worry about it.” 21:37 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Flying Deuces (1939) at 21:31 (passage 21:29–21:48); US record: No renewal found

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